Why is there so many lice?!

[Anonymous]

Dimethicone. You can buy a bottle for $10 on amazon. I mixed it with kitchen oil to make it easier to spread. It suffocates the lice and kills the eggs. You repeat in 10 days to be sure. It is hard to wash out but does the job.

[Anonymous]

We had lice several times, one time I got it too, that was . . . unpleasant.

The things that worked: the special lice comb, and doing the combouts once a day for several days, to be sure to get rid of the eggs.

Wearing hair in a ponytail. And just getting older--it was really bad in second/third grade.

When I Googled it, I learned that lice are racist, different species thrive on different types of hair, so there won't be a crossover. This is convenient if your kid's hair is atypical of other kids in their class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just for future reference, how do you know your kid has lice other than finding out there's an outbreak and looking closely at their scalp? Are they visible to the naked eye? Can you feel them? Dies the kid's head itch?

Was just shampooing my kid's hair and thinking about this thread and wondering if it would be possible to miss. My DD has light hair and it's in the thin side (you can see her scalp easily at her part) but does that matter? I never had lice as a kid but I remember it going around.

Yes it itches like crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross why dont they send kids home like they did back in the day?

Because it is really just an annoyance and not actually a health concern.

My DD had it once in Kingergarten and it really was not a huge deal.

[Anonymous]

Fwiw, I have one super lice-prone kid and one kid who had one mild case one time (both in DCPS). I swear, they just like some hair better than others ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the love of god people, teach your kids to never share or even try on hats and headbands that belong to their friends.

If you think that's all it takes, you don't understand lice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gross why dont they send kids home like they did back in the day?

Because it is really just an annoyance and not actually a health concern.

My DD had it once in Kingergarten and it really was not a huge deal.

It’s not a health concern in that lice don’t spread disease, but I do really think having half the class itch like crazy on and off for weeks because some kid keeps reinfecting everyone ends up sacrificing more learning time than just sending Nit Nancy home when the nurse sees the lice. Don’t think we’ve ended up with a utilitarian outcome on this one.

[Anonymous]

My 14 yr old insists on growing his hair out. He, however, refuses to ever comb that mop

Where is the lice????? Maybe he can babysit for your kid? I just want him to get it so I can have a logical reason to cut it.

He has ASD and unless there is a logical reason everything is a battle. While I think it looks terrible it, he does shower every day. I really have no reason to cut it other than it looks terrible. But if he got lice……